Paid by the city

HARPER BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION LLC

The city's published checkbook records $418,847,684 paid to HARPER BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION LLC across 3,591 payment lines, from FY2018 to FY2026.

Name as the city files it — often the legal name, not the trading name. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2026 means July 2025 through June 2026.

By fiscal year

FY2018$13,947,006

FY2019$34,573,342

FY2020$78,844,351

FY2021$89,247,340

FY2022$63,575,106

FY2023$55,588,443

FY2024$39,543,096

FY2025$29,324,465

FY2026$14,204,535

A dash means no payment to this vendor appears in that year's file. The city publishes this a few times a year, so it runs behind — the newest payments can take a few months to appear, and a fiscal year that has just ended usually isn't published at all yet. Treat the most recent year as incomplete.

Which department paid

Houston Public Works - HPW$431,922,922

Houston Airport System (HAS)$1,111,496

Constant In and Out-$14,186,734

How these purchases were made

PO Cap Proj Release — $782,801,231

PO Emergency — $27,472,694

Vendor Invoice — -$391,426,241

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded: 2% was bought under emergency procurement rules. The city publishes the route, not the reason for it.

Contracts billed under

4600015746 — $102,438,974

4600017211 — $85,801,364

4600015415 — $76,741,518

4600014924 — $70,227,080

4600016106 — $59,777,136

4600015969 — $59,053,628

4600015402 — $55,681,958

4600016245 — $47,003,078

4600016348 — $42,719,451

4600017822 — $37,735,543

4600014850 — $31,004,631

4600014512 — $30,969,492

The 12 largest of 19 contract numbers this vendor billed under. A contract number is the city's master agreement; individual purchases are released against it and don't each go back to council for a vote.

Where this comes from

Every figure on this page is summed from the City of Houston's published checkbook ↗, FY2018–FY2026. PlainDocket stores the totals; the individual payments stay on the city's portal, where you can filter them yourself.

These are payments, not a budget. The same ledger carries debt payments, bank and pension transfers and accounting reversals alongside what the city bought, so adding it all up doesn't describe city spending — which is why you won't find a citywide total here. What a named vendor or department was paid is solid.
This covers what the city paid — not what a council vote approved. A contract approved years ago can still be generating payments, and money approved recently may not have been paid yet.